stats.fm for Spotify Music App

I’ve been using this app for the last 2 1/2 years and while it is great. There’s some things that need to be fixed. For one it will make multiple different albums for the same album for example, eternal sunshine by Ariana Grande there could be five versions of that same album through the app. So when you stream a song from the album, it’ll start counting and all the different albums instead of all the streams being put into one album. Which makes your streams off because it will say that you’ve streamed the album less times than you actually have because it’s splitting the numbers incorrectly. It does this with songs as well. Another big problem I’ve noticed is its genre categories aren’t always accurate and to be a bit basic with the number of genres they have. But that’s not to mention the fact that it’s now using Japanese words and categorizing artist into the Japanese name category, which is not accurate. It could be a pop artist from America and they’d be put into that genre. I’ve also noticed it likes to flip artist around from genre genre for example example one day you’ll see Charli XCX under pop and then the next day she’s under electronic they’re always shifting artist between genres instead of keeping them the same or adding on genres to the list. One feature, I think that could be added that would be fun or helpful would be to add genres to albums and songs instead of only having them for artists.

I paid for premium, and I think this app is pretty cool. However, it’s frustrating when my streams don’t sync properly. For example, my home page and stats page will say “today” I’ve listened for 20 minutes, which I know isn’t true, and the artist tab will add up to 60 minutes. Then when I refresh, nothing changes. It’s actually pretty annoying, especially for an app I paid for. The app will tell me to change my settings, but even with those settings changed, I still have the same issues. I updated the app, and the graphs are horrible. First, they got rid of the minutes line, so i can’t easily see how much music I’m actually listening to. Number of streams is a pretty insignificant way to track listening, especially when different tracks have different lengths of time. On top of that, the scales are ridiculous, so these graphs are difficult to read and interpret. Why would you get rid of features like minutes on this graph? And why would you keep the same scales for a “daily” graph if it’s only going to be by streams anyways? My lines are now so flat and towards the very bottom of the graph because the scales are so low. I average 200+ minutes a day, but only ~50 streams/day. The scale is still by intervals of 200. I’m actually upset, because seeing the graphs with minutes was one of the most fascinating parts of this app, and especially compared with the number of streams. I have all my settings to sort stats by minutes, but for some reason these graphs are now only available by number of streams. It’s quite silly and pretty annoying

I’m giving it five stars because it’s a great music discovery app. I’ve added over 75 songs to my library in less than a week thanks to the social feature. If the app had better UI I probably would have found a lot more new music by now but the entire app is a bit poorly designed if I’m being honest. There are many features but they all exist in their own silos. For example they have leaderboards with your friends, but only on an artist’s page. They tell you what your friends are listening to right now but only on their pages so if you want a quick view for discovery you can’t. You have to manually click on each of their pages individually. On top of all of the features feeling like spaghetti thrown at a wall with no considerations for how they work together, the app is BUGGY. Things are always broken or not working properly on the first click which is annoying. Again giving it 5 stars bc I’ll take any tool, no matter how inefficient, for music discovery but I do hope they hire a UI/UX designer at some stage. If this app decided to go all in to enabling music discovery I wouldn’t even mind paying monthly personally